Prática de Shadowing: How to Serve A Perfect Volleyball Float Serve - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo
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Float serving is a great skill to learn in the game of volleyball.
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Not only is it a super easy serve to learn, but it can be super effective.
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So what we are going to do in today's video is learn all about the float serve.
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We're going to learn how to float serve.
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We're going to talk about tips that can help you become a better float server.
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I'm going to give you my best insight from my eight
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years of playing the game of volleyball to make you a lethal float server in the game of volleyball.
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With that all out of the way, let's learn how to float serve a volleyball.
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In the game of volleyball, once you get to a certain level, there are really only two main types of serves that you'll see out there on the volleyball court.
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On one hand, we have the topspin serves.
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That could be a standing topspin serve or maybe a jump topspin serve.
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And that is where the ball is coming with topspin
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because you hit the ball and you snap upon it in order to create speed
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and power to try and throw off the serve receive on the other side of the net.
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Topspin serves are all about power and using
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that to your advantage in order to throw off the serve receive on the other side of the net.
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On the other hand we have the float serve
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and again this could be seen in the standing or in the jump variant.
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Float serves are great because they don't rely as much on power
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but instead this floating effect that we can get when we hit a float serve correctly.
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What this does is allows the volleyball to move back
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and forth literally just like that
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And what it'll do is it'll give the server seed more things to think about
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when they're trying to pass your serve
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If you're able to effectively float serve a volleyball Then they're gonna have to pass serves
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that are coming at them like that and honestly I haven't done a whole lot of server seed in my life, but the server seed
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that I have done honestly I'd like passing float serves way
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less than I do jump spin serves What we're going to
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do in today's video is just focus on the standing float serve variant It is a super easy serve
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that I think a beginner could learn and I also think it's a serve
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that a more advanced volleyball player could definitely use and utilize from behind the service line.
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So let's start off this video by learning the basics of the standing float search.
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Thanks again to Way Wade for sponsoring today's video.
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And with that out of the way, let's hop straight back into the video.
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First thing we need to talk about
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when we're talking about serving is what side of the court we want to stand on.
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I think it's usually better to take a preference, whether you go to the right or the left, and I usually base that preference on what your strong hand is in the game of volleyball.
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So if you are a right-handed volleyball player, what I recommend is you go more over to the right when you're getting ready to serve volleyball.
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And if you are a left hand volleyball player, what I recommend is starting more on the left side of the volleyball court.
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Since I am a lefty volleyball player, I'm going to be doing this tutorial from the left side of the volleyball court.
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But I do realize that the majority of people watching this video are probably right handed.
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So all you really have to do is do the opposite of what I'm doing.
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So whatever your strong hand is, that is going to be the side that you start your serve from.
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When you serve a volleyball, even though you're in rotation one, you can actually serve from anywhere behind the service line.
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So at the end of the day, honestly just choose a spot that is comfortable for you.
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Now let's talk about how we get set up before we do our float serve.
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There's a couple of important things that we need to focus on here.
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First is our feet, then we have our toss, and then we have our actual serve or the swing.
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So starting off with our footwork, we want to set up with our dominant foot forward.
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Since I'm a left-handed volleyball player and I'm going to serve with my left hand, my left foot is going to start in front of my right foot.
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I want my feet to be set up in a comfortable stance around shoulder width apart.
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The reason we want to set up like this is
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because we can generate power from our hips in the rotation we get when we actually serve the volleyball.
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So what happens is when I serve that volleyball, I actually step forward with my non-dominant foot.
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What that allows me to do is open up my hips and use them to generate more power behind the serve, giving it more of that float effect, especially if I hit it correctly.
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So every time I get set up to float serve a volleyball, I want to make sure I'm starting with my dominant foot forward and my non-dominant foot back.
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Now we got to talk about the toss.
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I would argue that in serving in general, tossing is the most important part of every single serve you will ever do.
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The toss needs to be consistent.
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In fact, everything when it comes to serving is all about consistency, but most of that consistency just relies on how good your toss is.
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When we go to serve that volleyball, we don't want that toss super high and ridiculous.
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That is out of control, that is not a good toss, that adds more variables, more things that we need to consider when trying to serving, AKA making it harder than it actually needs to be.
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Instead, what we want
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that toss to look like is just like this maybe a couple of feet right in front of our head.
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A good way to practice tossing the volleyball, believe it or not, is just by tossing the volleyball.
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All you need to do is just get comfortable tossing around
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this height every single time you go to float serve a volleyball.
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I think that's a really good height.
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And what it allows you to do is hit that volleyball at the top of your swing, which is super important in order to get that volleyball over the net.
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The other super important variable with tossing a volleyball for your float serve is you want to toss
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that volleyball a little bit over towards your hitting hands.
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So since that volleyball is starting in my non-dominant right hand, what I want to do is just toss it a little bit over to the side.
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Just like that.
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And why I want to do that is
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because I want to give my left hand the least amount of things to worry about.
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So when I actually go to serve that volleyball, my left hand has very little things to worry about.
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That volleyball is in the same spot every time, I can do the same swing in order to have very consistent results with my float serve.
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The last component, the last piece of the recipe to float serve is all about the swing.
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The swing for a float serve is a little bit different than your normal swing
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that you would use when hitting a volleyball.
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This is because the swing that you use to hit a volleyball is all about generating that top spin on the volleyball.
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We don't want to do that when we're float surfing.
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We want that volleyball to be nice and floaty rather than spinny.
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The best way to achieve this is by keeping our serving hand nice, flat, and open.
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We do this because when we make contact with that volleyball, we want to have a nice big surface area on that volleyball, a nice flat contact point,
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and that's what's actually going to cause our serve to move and float back and forth just like that.
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If we hit that volleyball with a fist, we have no control over what type of float is going to be on it.
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If we finish and snap like we usually do when we hit a volleyball, then we're going to get that topspin.
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We don't want either of those things rather we just want
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that hand to be nice and flat Smack that volleyball nice
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and open and there we go that will give us the floating effect So now
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that we know all of the pieces in order to float
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serve We need to put them together in order to actually have the real thing.
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So step one.
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We're gonna start with our footwork Alright, I have my feet in the right spot.
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My dominant foot is forward.
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I'm ready to go Okay, the next thing I'm thinking about is the toss.
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I have
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that volleyball in the right hand I'm ready to toss it
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in front of my hitting hand aka my left hand I'm ready to go
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and now the last thing
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that I'm thinking about is just all about my contact point I'm keeping my hand nice
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and flat and open And I'm just thinking about hitting
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that volleyball flat in order to complete the float serve Now what actually happens
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when you go to float serve is this fourth step
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that I have yet to mention so far What happens is you're going to toss
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and then actually step forward with your right foot and that is going to open up your hips that I mentioned earlier,
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so you can generate more power when you actually hit the volleyball and make contact on your serve.
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So this is what happens.
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I'm set up, I toss that volleyball, I step, and then I serve through the volleyball,
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making sure my hand is nice and flat so I can get a nice float on that serve.
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Let's look at that again from a couple of different angles.
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I step, toss, serve.
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I step, toss, serve.
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And then one more time, we step, we toss, and we serve.
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One thing I'll say That will be something
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that you will need to work on from a comfort standpoint
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is how you want to finish your swing for me Personally
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when I float served I've usually followed through with
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that swing as I would
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when I normally hit a volleyball on the contrary I've seen
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some people just stop their hitting hand right after they make contact with the volleyball I've tried this out myself
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and what I found is you can actually get some more float on
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that volleyball if you do this
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But it might take a little bit of practice of getting
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used to since it will be a a completely different swing than what you would actually use when you hit a volleyball.
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So if you wanted an alternate swing to maybe try out when you're learning how to float serve, you could try doing everything exactly the same,
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step, toss the swing, but just stop that swing right after you make contact
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and see if you get a better float result because maybe
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that would be what you want to do going into the future.
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That would look like this.
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We step, we toss, And we keep
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that hand right here instead of actually following through with the serve again step toss
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Serve step toss serve
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that is the basic formula to float serving a volleyball Now
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let's break down some tips some tricks some extra things
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that you can use in order to find more success Maybe get some more aces from behind the service line
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when you go to float serve a volleyball The first thing
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that we need to talk about when float serving is all about location.
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In fact, I would argue that location in serving is everything.
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And you can have a serve that might not be as powerful, but if you put it in the right location, then you can be successful with it.
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As you can see behind me, there's 30 by 30 square feet of core on the other side of the net
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that I have to work with when I serve a volleyball.
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And most of the time, volleyball teams will have three players that will make up a server seat.
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One player will be right in the middle, Then we have somebody over here on the right side.
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And then on the flip, we have somebody serve receiving on the left side.
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Most of the time, what you don't want to do is put that serve directly on a player.
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So if there is a player standing right here, what I don't want to do is float serve that volleyball right at him.
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That would be the easiest possible pass that he would have to make even if it is a good serve.
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Instead, I think there are four good spots that on a normal float serve you should aim for.
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We have a seam right here in between these two serve receivers.
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There's also another seam right here in between these two serve receivers.
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The other two really good spots to serve would be down
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this end line right here in between this serve receiver and the boundary line of the court.
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And, yeah, you might have guessed it, the exact same thing on the other side of the net.
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This boundary line right here between this serve receiver and the boundary line of the court.
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We always want to be able to aim our serve where a player isn't, or where there are two players that might have to take responsibility for passing that serve.
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Volleyball can completely be a mind game at times, and the more mental pressure
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that you can put on the opposing team gives you a higher chance of being successful when it comes to serving.
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So a great way to practice your range of motion
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when it comes to serving is simply by working on serving different spots on the volleyball court.
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So a great drill that I can use to work on the location of my serve
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So it is simply by taking a cart full of volleyballs
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and working on all my location serves I'm gonna start on the left side of the court
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And I'm gonna try and hit each of those four spots
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that I mentioned earlier when it comes to my serve Let's try for the first one
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As you can see that was pretty close I didn't quite hit
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that serve in bounds But if that volleyball were to have hit the line
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that would have been a great serve to put pressure on the other team Let's try that again
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That serve looked a lot better.
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It landed inbounds, it was in between the sideline and that serve receiver.
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That's a great looking serve right there.
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Let's try for that next spot.
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That looks pretty good right there.
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I would say it was in between two serve receivers, making it so they have to make a decision on who's gonna pass that volleyball.
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Let's hit the next seam.
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That right there was my best serve yet.
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It went deep in between the seam.
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I'd make an argument that that was probably going to be a pretty effective serve in the game of volleyball.
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Last but not least, let's hit that fourth spot on the opposite sideline, try and get a good float serve.
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And that right there looks pretty good.
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If you are looking to improve your float serve, I would recommend hitting those four spots on the volleyball court.
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Those are the highest percentage places on the volleyball court
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that you have to succeed when putting the other team out of system or getting an ace.
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The last thing I think we should talk about
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when float serving a volleyball is throwing in a short serve every now and then.
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Let me paint this picture for you.
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Say I'm back here serving.
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I served maybe three, four times in a row.
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A great thing
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that I can now do since I'm already having success from
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behind the service line is incorporate a little bit of a curveball, throwing in a short serve.
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Pretty much all of the same rules for float serving a volleyball apply when it comes to serving the volleyball short.
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The only thing that really changes is you just add a lot less power when you actually make contact with that volleyball.
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You want that volleyball to land within the 10-foot line on the other side of the net, But not arcing super high you still want
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that volleyball to flow pretty close to the plane of the
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net You want it to be more of a dart that just kind of dies rather than a
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Kind of serve if you know what I mean.
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So let's use that same scenario.
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I just talked about I'm out of service run of four
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serves in a row I'm gonna now throw in a short
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serve to even throw more of a curveball on the serve receive on the other side of the net
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and give Them even more of a hard time receiving my serve here I go
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And as you can see really the only thing that I did there was just add a lot less power.
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Not only did that volleyball die on that end line, which is a great serve, but it also died short.
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Meaning that would be an even more difficult serve, especially if that serve receiver is expecting a normal float serve.
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It is just a great little mind trick that you can use
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and another way that you can add another location that you can float serve on the court.
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Honestly, you can float serve every single tile on the other
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side of the volleyball court with enough time in practice practicing your angles, where to hit the volleyball, and how much power you need.
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You could hit whatever shot you desire.
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To finish off the video, I'm just gonna give you one quick at-home drill
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that you can do by yourself if you don't have access to a gym or a net to practice your float serve.
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All you need is the same thing
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that we've used in a bunch of all the tutorial videos that I've made a trusty old wall.
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Basically what I'm going to do is aim for a spot on this wall
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that would be higher than the plane of a volleyball net.
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When I reach up on a men's volleyball net, I can just barely get like the top of my middle finger over the net.
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So this bar right here is going to be what I'm aiming for when I'm practicing my float surfs.
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So now that I know the spot that I'm going to be aiming for when I practice my surf, I'm gonna give myself a little bit of distance, I'm gonna get set up as I would to serve a volleyball,
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and all I'm gonna do is use that wall to serve a volleyball.
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Walls are a volleyball player's best friend.
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They act as a natural rebounder, and they just allow you to get rep after rep after rep practicing your serve.
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I highly recommend that if you want to work on your float serve, all you really need is a volleyball and a wall, some time and effort to put into practicing that float serve.
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Just like that.
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So that's going to do it for today's video.
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I think we covered everything that you need to know about float serving a volleyball.
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Thank you guys so much for watching.
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If you like this video, make sure to leave a like.
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Comment down below which volleyball skill I should break down next.
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Subscribe to the channel if you are new.
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And if you're not new, go check out PME Volleyball Shorts.
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I make a ton more volleyball content over there, and I think if you like what we got going on in this channel, you will like what's going on over there.
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Thank you guys so much for watching.
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I'll catch you guys in the next video.
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Peace.
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Bye.
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Vocabulário e dicas de fala para esta lição
Esta aula de conversação de nível B1 usa o vídeo “How to Serve A Perfect Volleyball Float Serve”. As palavras que mais se repetem: serve, volleyball, float, toss, serving. Este vídeo tem 250 frases e 3678 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 16:39. O falante fala rápido, cerca de 221 palavras por minuto, então espere sons ligados e reduzidos. 84% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês; vale a pena estudar o restante antes de começar.
Vocabulário principal deste vídeo
As 15 palavras mais avançadas do vídeo, com pronúncia e significado:
| Palavra | Pronúncia | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| volleyball substantivo | /ˈvɒlibɔ(ː)l/ | bola de vôlei/vólei, voleibol |
| float verbo | /fləʊt/ | boiar, flutuar |
| toss verbo | /tɔs/ | jogar, arremessar |
| receiver substantivo | /ɹəˈsi.vɚ/ | destinatário, recebedor |
| dominant adjetivo | /ˈdɑmənənt/ | dominante |
| seam substantivo | /ˈsiːm/ | costura |
| generate verbo | /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/ | gerar |
| surf verbo | /sɝf/ | surfar |
| boundary substantivo | /ˈbaʊndɹi/ | fronteira |
| curveball substantivo | bola curva | |
| sideline substantivo | /ˈsaɪdlaɪn/ | linha lateral |
| variant substantivo | /ˈvæɹi.ənt/ | variante |
| tutorial substantivo | /ˌtjuːˈtɔːɹɪəl/ | tutorial |
| mint substantivo | /mɪnt/ | menta, hortelã |
| consistency substantivo | /kənˈsɪs.tən.si/ | consistência |
Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir
| Palavra | Pronúncia | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| set up verbo | /ˌsɛt ˈʌp/ | preparar |
| check out verbo | verificar, sacar só | |
| finish off verbo | acabar com | |
| make up verbo | /ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/ | compensar |
| try out verbo | provar, experimentar |
Frases que vale a pena repetir
Frases curtas e completas do vídeo que você pode usar na conversa do dia a dia:
- We're going to learn how to float serve.
- I think that's a really good height.
- Let's try for that next spot.
- Let's hit the next seam.
- Say I'm back here serving.
Gramática neste vídeo
As estruturas que o falante mais usa, com as palavras exatas do vídeo:
| Estrutura | No vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + particípio passado — uma ação passada que ainda importa agora | haven't done · have done · have been |
| Voz passiva be + particípio passado — o foco está no que acontece, não em quem faz | could be seen · be set · is hit |
| Orações relativas who / which + oração — informação extra sobre uma pessoa ou coisa | swing, which is · line, which is |
| Superlativos the -est / the most … — o maior ou o menor de um grupo | my best · the most important · the least amount |
Pronúncia para ficar de olho
O falante usa 77 contrações e formas reduzidas, como I'm, gonna, don't. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.
- Os sons de “th”: lethal /ˈliː.θəl/, width /ˈwɪtθ/
- Os sons de “sh” e “zh”: rotation /ɹoʊˈteɪʃən/, shoe /ˈʃu/
- Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: consistency /kənˈsɪs.tən.si/, incorporate /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.eɪt/
Sons difíceis para falantes de português:
- Consoante final — sem acrescentar um “i” depois: float /fləʊt/, dominant /ˈdɑmənənt/, generate /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/, footwork /ˈfʊt.wɜːk/, variant /ˈvæɹi.ənt/
- /l/ final — a língua toca o céu da boca, não vira “u”: volleyball /ˈvɒlibɔ(ː)l/, tutorial /ˌtjuːˈtɔːɹɪəl/, drill /dɹɪl/, insole /ˈɪnsoʊl/, tile /ˈtaɪ.əl/
- s + consoante no início — sem um “i” antes: sponsor /ˈspɒn.səː/, snap /snæp/, standpoint /ˈstændpɔɪnt/, stance /stæns/
Como praticar com este vídeo
- Ouça o vídeo inteiro uma vez sem falar e anote as palavras que você não conhece.
- Comece na velocidade 0,75×, faça shadowing frase por frase e volte à velocidade normal quando ficar fácil.
- Grave a sua voz e compare com o original, prestando atenção a palavras como volleyball, float, toss.
O que é a Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing é uma técnica de aprendizado de idiomas com base científica, originalmente desenvolvida para o treinamento de intérpretes profissionais. O método é simples, mas poderoso: você ouve áudio em inglês nativo e repete imediatamente em voz alta — como uma sombra seguindo o falante com 1-2 segundos de atraso. Pesquisas mostram melhora significativa na precisão da pronúncia, entonação, ritmo, sons conectados, compreensão auditiva e fluência na fala.